… EMACS is a good example of RMS’s ideal piece of software.  User written.  User modified.  Free.  Constantly improved and improving.  One of the most complex, powerful, and easy to use editors around…

…it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz…

isSo a tool which models the world ends up resembling that world as well Rob Warnock…

Now it’s done by everyone, with predictable results. https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/rob-pike-geek-of-the-week/…

Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determinationThere is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars…

The complexity was not contained Ryan Dahl, “I hate almost all software”…

When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn’t connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn’t the same thing. And uniform? Far from it, except in mediocrity. ht…

my heart sinks whenever I look under the hood in Linux. It is has been so overfed by loving handsMiraculously, though, this monster works. Douglas McIlroy…

computers that are architecturally identical to a Packard Bell 486 desktop running MS-DOS long enough to boot a crippled and amateurish clone of Unix circa 1987 http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/…

but it’s the de facto standard trash fire http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/fin/…